Pretty cool? Try "fucking fantastic!", exacly as this thread's title says. People like animavore and you, who have not gone through the early sixties as tweens or teens have no fucking idea just how insufferably buttoned up, conformist, not to say oppressive the social ambience was at the time. In TV terms, think of watching an uninterrupted stream Father Knows Best, Bonanza and Dragnet.
Most of our parents loathed those unruly moptops. Even better, they absolutely hated the Rolling Stones. Their music was a rebellion against conformist stupor, and we revelled in it.
I guess you had to be there to understand.